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The victims of asbestos, through the Association of Asbestos Victims of Madrid (Madrid), together with Madrid and UGT Madrid, will demand before the Congress of Deputies the urgent processing of the compensation fund intended for the affected people who were and are exposed to this compound. The admission of the bill on the compensation fund for asbestos victims was voted by a very large majority by the Plenary Session of the Congress of Deputies on April giving way to its processing in the Committee on Work, Inclusion, and Social Security. and Migrations. Since that moment, successive periods of extension of the period for presenting amendments have been approved, which prevents their discussion from starting in the aforementioned commission. This fact already occurred in the previous legislature, in which this same bill was presented and whose delay in its processing already had " fatal consequences ", since the advance of the General Elections in 2019 prevented its approval, despite having been consensus has already been reached between the parliamentary groups on its final text.
The current repetition of the delay in the start of the discussion of the bill in the parliamentary committee, together with the recent news that the Government has not provided for a specific item in the General Budget project to finance the compensation fund of asbestos victims, is a cause of concern for the entities that have been proposing its creation in Spain for decades, due Australia Phone Number to the lack of protection in which people affected by diseases caused by asbestos find themselves , all of them irreversible. These compensation funds have already existed for two decades in some countries of the European Union such as France or Belgium. From AVIDA they remember that "in the workplaces where we have suffered the consequences of having been in contact with asbestos, with the death or illness of someone on our staff (or after retirement), we know how unfair this situation". In his opinion, these are asbestos-related diseases that also affect the families of exposed workers and people who have been exposed in non-work environments.
A suffering - they continue - that could have been avoided if successive governments had acted responsibly, prohibiting the use of asbestos many years ago and establishing a plan for its removal throughout the national territory." The associations of asbestos victims denounce that in companies, "in general, not even the existing minimum regulations of using masks, washing work clothes, carrying out environmental measurements of asbestos, specific medical examinations or other preventive measures that the law was demanding in jobs". As a consequence of this "lack of responsibility on the part of governments and employers, we find hundreds, probably thousands of people sick or dead from having been in contact with asbestos," they lament. The organizers explain that these compensation funds have existed for two decades in some European Union countries such as France or Belgium, which protect people affected by asbestos.
The current repetition of the delay in the start of the discussion of the bill in the parliamentary committee, together with the recent news that the Government has not provided for a specific item in the General Budget project to finance the compensation fund of asbestos victims, is a cause of concern for the entities that have been proposing its creation in Spain for decades, due Australia Phone Number to the lack of protection in which people affected by diseases caused by asbestos find themselves , all of them irreversible. These compensation funds have already existed for two decades in some countries of the European Union such as France or Belgium. From AVIDA they remember that "in the workplaces where we have suffered the consequences of having been in contact with asbestos, with the death or illness of someone on our staff (or after retirement), we know how unfair this situation". In his opinion, these are asbestos-related diseases that also affect the families of exposed workers and people who have been exposed in non-work environments.
A suffering - they continue - that could have been avoided if successive governments had acted responsibly, prohibiting the use of asbestos many years ago and establishing a plan for its removal throughout the national territory." The associations of asbestos victims denounce that in companies, "in general, not even the existing minimum regulations of using masks, washing work clothes, carrying out environmental measurements of asbestos, specific medical examinations or other preventive measures that the law was demanding in jobs". As a consequence of this "lack of responsibility on the part of governments and employers, we find hundreds, probably thousands of people sick or dead from having been in contact with asbestos," they lament. The organizers explain that these compensation funds have existed for two decades in some European Union countries such as France or Belgium, which protect people affected by asbestos.